Republicans have such a strong grip on Indiana – holding the governor’s office and super majorities in both legislative chambers – that it is difficult to see beyond the fact. It sometimes feels as though it must have always been so and always will be so.

The Agriculture Department last year released results of a comprehensive study of school nutrition programs to gauge the impact of new, strict standards implemented in 2010 by the Obama administration. The news was all good. The nutritional quality of school-provided breakfasts and lunches h…

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A centuries-old institution survives not only through the accumulated weight of tradition, but through the ability to make sharp adjustments to its course when it finally realises it must. The British monarchy, by temperament a tortoise, has just put on a turn of speed again. Saturday’s stat…

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When Chief Justice John Roberts swears in all 100 senators as jurors for the impeachment trial of Donald John Trump, each will promise to “do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws.”

We kicked off the 2020 legislative session last week at the Statehouse. It’s an honor to continue serving you as your state representative and working to improve the quality of life in our community. This is a “short session,” which lasts until early March. This is the session we consider bi…

Just a few years ago, an aircraft-industry expert envisioning a possible “game over” future for Boeing would have been inconceivable.

Once upon a time in Hollywood, there was a slate of Oscar nominations populated by directors and performers of reasonably diverse ethnic backgrounds and genders. Alas, that was in 2018. And again in 2019. But the fairy tale did not come true again on Monday, when the Academy of Motion Pictur…

Recently, the old joke that the orange construction barrel is Indiana’s state flower has been told with unprecedented frequency around the Hoosier state. The proliferation of orange and white that motorists encounter across all 92 counties in our state is a visual confirmation of a historic …

It is indeed a “good thing for all parties concerned and a good thing for the world,” as President Donald Trump said Wednesday, that “Iran appears to be standing down.”

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The escalating confrontation between the United States and Iran paused on Wednesday, which, as President Trump put it, “is a good thing for all parties concerned.” Having demonstrated that it can strike Iraqi bases where U.S. troops are deployed with precision, Iran announced that it had “co…

Like it or not, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden and his son Hunter have been dragged into President Donald Trump’s sleazy arms-for-dirt dealings with Ukraine. Biden can’t control that, but he can control how he handles questions about the matter. His responses haven’t been a g…

Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani was an implacable enemy of the United States who was responsible for hundreds of American deaths, as well as countless atrocities in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere. His death in a drone strike was being cheered Friday by U.S. allies and progressive forces across…

Amid a standoff over the shape of the Senate trial required by the House’s historic impeachment vote, recently unearthed administration emails provide more evidence that President Trump personally blocked military aid to Ukraine to force its newly elected leader to smear his political enemie…

The U.S. government has refused for decades not only to do something about escalating gun violence but also to learn anything about it. This policy of willful ignorance is at long last expected to end under a federal budget that funds gun violence research for the first time in more than 20 years.

Pope Francis’ decision to stop classifying accusations of sexual abuse against Catholic clergy as secrets until they’re investigated by a Vatican panel is a step in the right direction. But it is not enough.

For only the third time in this country’s history, a president has been impeached. It now will be up to the U.S. Senate to determine whether President Donald Trump becomes the first one to be convicted by trial in the Senate and removed from office.

Judge Carolyn Dineen King was a voice of reason on Wednesday as her fellow members of a three-judge appeals panel sustained a legal threat to the Affordable Care Act.

I’d love to take a few minutes to thank some wonderful people in our community.

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The House of Representatives’ impeachment of President Trump on Wednesday was proper and necessary. Mr. Trump withheld a White House meeting and U.S. military aid in an attempt to force Ukraine’s president to aid his reelection campaign. This was a gross abuse of his office that Congress cou…

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Officials from the Trump administration and the Chinese government have announced a breakthrough: They’ve achieved agreement on the first phase of a long-awaited trade deal.

Before President Donald Trump took office, fencing and other barriers stood along 654 miles of the 1,900-mile border with Mexico. The administration has replaced or upgraded a tenth of that existing network - without building much in the way of new walls. Now Trump is determined to deliver o…

A common event in this era of ever-shorter news cycles is a major journalism investigation being published, drawing a brief surge of interest and then fading without ever having a significant impact. That seems to have happened with a jaw-dropping report by The Washington Post based on offic…

Gov. Eric Holcomb’s 2020 plan for Indiana might be his most ambitious yet, and so far it looks like actual progress will be made at the statehouse.

Bipartisanship isn’t easy, but it’s what we need more than ever.

Our national leaders are failing the people who feed us.

In the 1970s, a joke made the rounds on college campuses that went something like this. Question: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: fish.

There's never going to be bipartisan support of impeachment, so why are we harming hard-working Americans in the process?

After she confronted Joe Biden in the Democratic Party’s first presidential debate in June, California Sen. Kamala Harris moved up in polls and seemed to become a top-tier candidate. Instead, the former state attorney general and San Francisco district attorney has became the latest White Ho…

This time of year can seem like it’s all about the money.

President Donald Trump tried to shake down the leader of Ukraine for personal political gain, putting what’s best for America second.

Most Americans understand that, under military law, soldiers must disobey an illegal command. It’s a doctrine that demolished Nazi war criminals’ claims during the Nuremberg trials that they were just following orders.

President Trump displayed a noticeable weakness in the knees Friday when speaking about legislation that Congress has overwhelmingly passed to impose sanctions on China for the crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong. Although the House passed the Hong Kong Human Rights an…